Essays on Internet Privacy

Internet Privacy

Computer privacy has been becoming a major topic in various people’s eyes. The majority of people define privacy as being free from being seen and not disturbed by others and there. There are also people that define privacy as controlling how a person’s personal information is collected, used, and distributed. When Companies and social media are in the picture that is when the gray area really comes into play. Social media is defined as websites and applications that allow users to participate in social networking by creating and sharing content with people they communicate with new people, ...

It was not long after the social websites like facebook and Instagram were introduced that people are starting posting their personal information and pictures quite freely for their friends and acquaintances to see. To be fair, the motive of these platforms was to find a way to socialize with friends through the use of the internet and for the longest time; these sites also took care of that particular wish of ours. We also have to consider here that after these websites had come out, in the beginning, the better part of us had more faith that the parties ...

New technologies provide people with enormous prospects and allow them to do several things in a more competent, opportune and expedient way. Simultaneously, they present people with harsh and difficult questions when we realize some of the ethical insinuations connected with the assorted technologies the world at present have or are probable to have at their disposal in the future. For instance, a New York Times online edition issued on 11 June 2006 disclosed that human resources managers are increasingly declining job applications because of material they found on them on social networking sites. However, one may appraise this development; it ...